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CapChat: Santa Anita Horse Deaths / Uber Pilots New Pricing / State Of The State

Thursday, January 23, 2020 | Sacramento, CA
AP Photo/Beth Harris

Flowers frame a new infield video board and the finish line at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif., Sept. 27, 2019. Horse racing returned to Santa Anita amid intense scrutiny after the deaths of 31 horses at the historic track earlier in 2019.

AP Photo/Beth Harris

Today’s CapChat looks at three current issues. 

First, with horse death investigations underway at Santa Anita Park, three more deaths have occurred in recent days. Since December 2018, there have been a total of 42 deaths at the park. California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law in June of 2019 allowing the state to suspend horse racing at tracks with dangerous conditions. That has, as yet, not happened at Santa Anita.

Next, in a new pilot program, Uber is giving some of its driving contractors more control by letting them set their own rates. Drivers at the Sacramento, Palm Springs and Santa Barbara airports can increase rates in ten percent increments, with a cap. Depending on results, Uber could expand this to other airports. This is an effort to clarify that Uber drivers are independent, not employees, since the implementation of AB 5 on Jan. 1, 2020.

Third, with the impeachment trial underway in the U.S. Senate, the date of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union somewhat uncertain, Newsom has yet to set a date for his own annual State of the State address. 

Guests

  • CapRadio State Government Reporter Scott Rodd

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